[HTML][HTML] Combining lidar and synthetic aperture radar data to estimate forest biomass: status and prospects

S Kaasalainen, M Holopainen, M Karjalainen… - Forests, 2015 - mdpi.com
Research activities combining lidar and radar remote sensing have increased in recent
years. The main focus in combining lidar-radar forest remote sensing has been on the …

Carbon emissions from land use and land-cover change

RA Houghton, JI House, J Pongratz… - …, 2012 - bg.copernicus.org
The net flux of carbon from land use and land-cover change (LULCC) accounted for 12.5%
of anthropogenic carbon emissions from 1990 to 2010. This net flux is the most uncertain …

Advances in remote sensing technology and implications for measuring and monitoring forest carbon stocks and change

S Goetz, R Dubayah - Carbon Management, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Forest monitoring using satellite imagery has advanced tremendously over the past few
decades, to the point that these datasets now inform international policy agreements …

Twenty‐first century remote sensing technologies are revolutionizing the study of tropical forests

A Sanchez‐Azofeifa, J Antonio Guzmán… - Biotropica, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The fields of tropical biology and conservation face significant transformations due to rapid
technological developments in remote sensing. Other fields (eg Archeology) are …

Relating P-band synthetic aperture radar tomography to tropical forest biomass

DHT Minh, T Le Toan, F Rocca… - … on Geoscience and …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The retrieval of above-ground biomass (AGB) in dense tropical forests using synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) images is widely recognized as a challenging task. The first difficulty …

Effective number of layers: A new measure for quantifying three-dimensional stand structure based on sampling with terrestrial LiDAR

M Ehbrecht, P Schall, J Juchheim, C Ammer… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
The relevance of stand structural heterogeneity for biodiversity conservation is increasingly
recognized and efficient tools for its measurement are demanded. Here, we quantified forest …

A new era in forest restoration monitoring

DRA de Almeida, SC Stark, R Valbuena… - Restoration …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Monitoring ecological restoration has been historically dependent on traditional inventory
methods based on detailed information obtained from field plots. New paradigms are now …

Automated estimation of forest height and underlying topography over a Brazilian tropical forest with single-baseline single-polarization TanDEM-X SAR interferometry

Y Lei, R Treuhaft, F Gonçalves - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Forest height is an important variable for modeling terrestrial carbon storage and global
carbon cycle dynamics. Spaceborne SAR Interferometry (InSAR) has the sensitivity to …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating forest structure in a tropical forest using field measurements, a synthetic model and discrete return lidar data

MW Palace, FB Sullivan, MJ Ducey, RN Treuhaft… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Tropical forests are huge reservoirs of terrestrial carbon and are experiencing rapid
degradation and deforestation. Understanding forest structure proves vital in accurately …

Estimating spruce and pine biomass with interferometric X-band SAR

S Solberg, R Astrup, T Gobakken, E Næsset… - Remote Sensing of …, 2010 - Elsevier
The primary aim of this study was to investigate the suitability of interferometric X-band SAR
(InSAR) for inventory of boreal forest biomass. We investigated the relationship between …